What songs from the days before 1970 are your favourite?

Here's a few from the 60's that I enjoy

One Tin Soldier - Original Caste My favourite song of the 60's
Summer Holiday - Cliff Richard
Bachelor Boy - Cliff Richard
Windmill in Old Amsterdam - Freddie and the Dreamers
Fortune Teller - Bobby Curtola My fellow Canucks will remember this one

Walk Away Renee - Left Banke (Four Tops cover was pretty good too)
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
The Long And Winding Road - Beatles
So Much In Love - Tymes
Maybe - Chantels
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - Hollies
The Great Pretender - Platters
There's A  Moon Out Tonight - Capris

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - Hollies


I forgot about that one.  I love it too :)

I'm not going to mention any Beatles here because they are in a class by themselves (and I have too many that I love).

Non-Beatles tunes (no order):

-Those were the Days-Mary Hopkins
-Bus Stop-The Hollies
-California Dreamin'-The Mamas & the Papas
-You Don't Own Me-Leslie Gore
-Windmills of Your Mind-(still looking for a really good version of that song even though Hubby thinks Johnny Mathis does a great job but I haven't heard him do it yet)
-The Puppy Song-Neilson
-Wonderful World-Sam Cooke
-You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling-The Rightous Brothers
- Manha De Carnaval-from the movie Black Orpheus


Many more but that is all I can think of right now.



Cat

I'm not going to mention any Beatles here because they are in a class by themselves (and I have too many that I love).

Non-Beatles tunes (no order):

-Those were the Days-Mary Hopkins
-Bus Stop-The Hollies
-California Dreamin'-The Mamas & the Papas
-You Don't Own Me-Leslie Gore
-Windmills of Your Mind-(still looking for a really good version of that song even though Hubby thinks Johnny Mathis does a great job but I haven't heard him do it yet)
-The Puppy Song-Neilson
-Wonderful World-Sam Cooke
-You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling-The Rightous Brothers
- Manha De Carnaval-from the movie Black Orpheus


Many more but that is all I can think of right now.



Cat




Wow for some reason I expected to see alot of Peter Paul & Mary... I thought I remembered you really liking them..although I could be thinking of someone else.

I really like California Dreamin' too. :)

Wow for some reason I expected to see alot of Peter Paul & Mary... I thought I remembered you really liking them..although I could be thinking of someone else.

I really like California Dreamin' too. :)



I do like Peter, Paul & Mary. My fav of theirs is a Christmas tune- A Soulin'.




Cat

Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
Hey Jude - The Beatles
San Francisco - Scott Mc Kenzie

Reach out of the darkness - Friends & Lover

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

Lots and lots ....

Come On Down To My Boat Baby - Every Mothers Son
Lady Godiva - Peter and Gordon
Lily The Pink - The Scaffold
Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies (I love most of their stuff)
Daydream Believer - The Monkees (I love most of theirs)
Anything "Bubblegum"
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Hermans Hermits
Bees Gees
The Seekers
Peter, Paul and Mary

Just way to many to even start listing here...

...basically, you could throw me almost any 60s song and I'll like it in some way...

(Apart from Esther & Abi's 'Cinderella Rockerfella', which was just dire...!)


Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix


Heh! Completely 'off the wall' weird, that one...^!

...basically, you could throw me almost any 60s song and I'll like it in some way...




Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin? :P

Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin? :P



I like that song.



Cat

Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin? :P


Over-exposed, I'll agree (due to its use in several ads) but I still like...

I like that song.



Cat



Over-exposed, I'll agree (due to its use in several ads) but I still like...


I guess I just never acquired a taste for that screechy voice of hers... it's not as noticable in "Cry Baby" or "Piece of my Heart" though, so I like listening to those two once in awhile.

I guess I just never acquired a taste for that screechy voice of hers... it's not as noticable in "Cry Baby" or "Piece of my Heart" though, so I like listening to those two once in awhile.


"Piece Of My Heart" is a good one... :)

Anyone remember "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" by (former pop star turned sicko) Jonathan King?

Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
Hey Jude - The Beatles
San Francisco - Scott Mc Kenzie

  8) oh yea..all of the above! especially Jimii

   8) oh yea..all of the above! especially Jimii
I had to make sure of the dates on most because I have a bad memory but I like these ones a lot and remember them when they came out which was a long time ago.

Almost anything by either the Beatles or Stones
California Dreamin', I Saw Her Again Last Night, Dedicated to the One I Love by The Mamas and Papas
Summer in the City by The Lovin' Spoonful
Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
Tell Her No and Time of the Season by the Zombies

For Your Love - The Yardbirds

Gloria - Them   
with a very young lead vocalist named Van Morrison

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Have I the Right - The Honeycombs  1964
What a great song

Here's a real golden oldie ...

If I Call You By Some Name - The Paupers (1966)

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Sheila - Tommy Roe
Dizzy - Tommy Roe
Jam Up And Jelly Tight - Tommy Roe

I'm needing a sample because it's not coming to mey memory?


That song is so old, I don't think samples even exist for it  :\'(

Hoew about these (sound clips included) ...

Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tilotson
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes
Since I Don't Have You - The Skyliners

Ones I mentioned before, now with sound clips ...

Bachelor Boy - Cliff Richard
Summer Holliday - Cliff Richard
Fortune Teller - Bobby Curtola

Probably my ten favourite songs of the 60s

1. I Get Around - The Beach Boys
2. I Like It - Gerry and the Pacemakers
3. Mrs. Brown - Herman's Hermits
4. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
5. Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
6. Break on Through - The Doors
7. Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
8 Voodoo Chilli - Jimi Hendrix Experience
9. Old Man Willow - Elephants Memory
10. Everybody's Talkin' - Harry Nilsson

Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Go Now - Moody Blues
More Than Yesterday - Spiral Starecase
Different Drum - The Stone Poneys
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells
Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James and the Shondells
Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In - 5th Dimension
Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka
Since I Don't Have You - The Skyliners
Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman
Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller
Fools Rush In - Elvis Presley
I Saw Her Again - The Mamas and the Papas
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
Day Tripper - The Beatles
Ticket To Ride - The Beatles
Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page
I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline


I could probably list more, but it would take up the whole page.

Have I the Right - The Honeycombs  1964
What a great song



Oh wow......I forgot about that one.  It's amazing! 


*runs to find it*

Oh wow......I forgot about that one.  It's amazing! 


*runs to find it*
dang, you're lucky if you have it. I'd be running for it too.  I love the chick drummer, she wails!

This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis and the Playboys
She's Just My Style      ^        ^          ^

Here Comes My Baby - The Tremeloes, which by the way was written by Cat Stevens.

Have I the Right - The Honeycombs  1964
What a great song


I love that song - my brother had the LP and we played that song to death.  :D

"I Got You Babe" - Sonny and Cher

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

Anything by The Who probably goes without saying. Favourite songs from the 60s that weren't by The Who:

Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks
Out of Time by The Rolling Stones (the version where Brian Jones shows himself to be a superb marimba player)

but my favourite 60s song - I even like this more than anything The Who did in the 60s - is Itchycoo Park by The Small Faces. I often wonder - if the Small Faces hadn't split up in 1968, would The Who have been my second favourite group? My favourite music is The Who's early 70s stuff, but what might The Small Faces have been doing then? We'll never know.

I've been listening to alot of 60's classics lately, and I must add in like every hit by Bobby Curtola.  He was such a great singer ...

"Aladdin", "Move Over", "Indian Giver", "Hitchhiker", "Don't You Sweetheart Me", "I Cry and Cry" and the very excellent "Three Rows Over" :)

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Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham And the Pharohs

Jason, I'm like twice your age and don't recognize a single one. maybe if I sampled I would.


Bobby Curtola was a Canadian teen idol from the 60's.  Apart from two minor chart entries with "Fortune Teller" and "Aladdin", he never became a big star in America. 

He had alot of great songs.  Here are some clips of some of his best known hits ...

1961 - Don't You Sweetheart Me
1961 - I'll Never Be Alone Again
1962 - Johnny Take Your Time
1962 - Fortune Teller
1962 - Aladdin
1963 - Indian Giver
1963 - Three Rows Over

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The Joker Went Wild - Brian Hyland

And any 'hit' by Tommy Roe was fun... :)

The Pusher- Steppenwolf